Hitton

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by Hitton 7y ago
Although rare, vaccines can still have negative side effects, sometimes very severe ones, even in healthy children. I think that state shouldn't have the right to kill your kid, however small is the chance. As for children who can&#x27
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by Hitton 7y ago
The dedicated laptop would be smarter idea. Running "sensitive" tasks from VM doesn't provide much protection if the host might be compromised.
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by Hitton 7y ago
Not sure what you consider it "this sort of thing", but native speakers of Australian aboriginal language Guugu Yimithirr have nearly superhuman sense of direction. They can automatically tell where is north, south, east, and west
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by Hitton 7y ago
It's only matter of time before gene-editing becomes commonplace. March of progress can't be stopped. He Jiankui will eventually be vindicated and possibly lauded as visionary and pioneer.
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by Hitton 7y ago
Ancient Romans had kinda similar technology, although chemically not bacteria based. https://www.nature.com/news/seawater-is-the-secret-to-long-l...
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by Hitton 7y ago
Thank God that Google is such trustworthy company on which we can depend with all our data and personal information. The company that would never deal with likes of China. The company which would never expose data of Google+ customers. The
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by Hitton 7y ago
You can disagree with Camille Paglia's ideas, but one must respect her for her integrity and commitment to honest academic debate, which is sadly lacking nowadays in most western universities.
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by Hitton 7y ago
Many great minds are in some way flawed, the thing that makes them great thinkers able to come up with revolutionary ideas probably makes them more susceptible to crackpottery. Examples: Linus Pauling, Peter Duesberg, William Herschel, Isaa
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by Hitton 7y ago
Although Comenia Script was very hyped, it hasn't become very widespread. Last data I'm aware of gave percentage of schools using it at only 4 percents.
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by Hitton 7y ago
To be honest such scenario is not so hard to imagine. When I think of my studies, it was probably some introduction to Java, we learned how to use javac during first lesson, but never used it since, because we just clicked button in IDE. So
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by Hitton 7y ago
I've not learned Rust yet, but unless it does behave really weird, I can't believe that Electron and Qt have roughly same RAM usage. In my experience Electron has usually 2 to 3 times higher RAM requirements than Qt application of
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by Hitton 7y ago
I use "Enhacer for Youtube" extension.
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by Hitton 7y ago
I really didn't expect this sort of Y Combinator, especially on this page. Still very interesting read, because I didn't know it before and at the same time it shed a bit of light on naming of this company.
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by Hitton 7y ago
One possibility would be to let user pay for the copy of the deleted text in case he fails.
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by Hitton 7y ago
I consider such approach rather oppressive and reeking of colonialism attitudes. It sounds like: "Fuck Brasil, let's ban them from using their natural resources, while we happily keep using ours". There is literally no reason
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by Hitton 7y ago
This record isn't really that impressive. Average distance a day was 382 km a day. Assuming riding on a road without hills that much can be done by any good amateur, the cyclist just needs perseverance to do that every day all year lon
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by Hitton 7y ago
Recently there is so many horror stories about Google support, last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20711508 , now this... I'm really glad I don't depend on business with Google.
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by Hitton 7y ago
I suspect that something like coauthors package could actually work.
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by Hitton 7y ago
They are probably salty that you used LinkedIn ads instead of their own.
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by Hitton 7y ago
I guess that the author didn't consider them, because neither of them is lazy by default, at the beginning he mentioned laziness as major Haskell advantage.
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by Hitton 7y ago
That's cool, but let's not forget that methane stays in atmosphere only for 12 years. That means that if methane production stays constant, it doesn't actually increase amount of methane in atmosphere. Therefore I think that
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by Hitton 7y ago
That's not true, for instance Startpage doesn't do that.
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by Hitton 7y ago
Lab grown meat can't come soon enough.
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by Hitton 7y ago
Probably so called "Dev-fused iPhones".
565.
by Hitton 7y ago
I don't know if things changed in last twenty years, but I consider at least basic knowledge of Al-Khawrazmi pretty common, hardly what I would call forgotten.
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by Hitton 7y ago
From utilitarianism perspective definitely. It just depends how much you weight your happiness from eating it versus animal's suffering as lower organism.
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by Hitton 7y ago
Wow, Apple is ahead of its competition again.
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by Hitton 7y ago
Being interrupted every 10 minutes seems like terrible idea which would most likely destroy your productivity.
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by Hitton 7y ago
Cool, I liked it included blind alleys, too often people include just what worked to seem smarter.
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by Hitton 7y ago
Free speech in Germany is a joke. https://www.humanityinaction.org/knowledgebase/206-you-can-s... https://www.dw.com/en/is-it-illegal-to-call-someone-a-nazi/a...

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